More spaghetti

[fub]

The cooking store in town has the molecular cooking kits on stock, so we swung by yesterday to get an additional spaghetti kit: twice as many tubes means that producing the spaghetti is twice as fast! Turns out they had a sale, and the kits were 50% off. So we got two! (When we got home, we found out why: the kits had a best-by date of mid-2016… I

Comments

[beauty_forashes]

That's really amazing and sounds so good! Can the tubes be re-used for future portions? I've never heard of molecular cooking kits.

[fub]

Yes. After three minutes, the strands have solidified because the mixture has cooled off. Then you use an empty syringe, filled with air, to blow air into the tube, and the strand will slip out of the tube. Then you can fill the tube again with warm mixture!

[spiral_meter]

i admire your food chemistry skills.

b

[fub]

In highschool, I had a chemistry teacher who always said that chemistry is nothing more than glorified cooking skills. And it seems like the reverse is true as well!

[spiral_meter]

your chemistry teacher sounds smart.

b

[meringues]

My goodness, this looks good!

[fub]

It was good to eat as well! But it was a lot... We could have easily fed four people with the amount of custard we made. Not that we did: of course we all ate it ourselves.

[meringues]

Is it something you can refrigerate and then eat the leftovers later?

[fub]

Yes, we could have done that. But that would have required us to notice this before we dumped it into two bowl for our dessert! ;)

[tabular_rasa]

This is so interesting and different! It sounds like it really worked out for you to have more than one kit, and to experiment with liquid flavors to get a stronger result. Lots of possibilities to play around with!

[fub]

Yes, if a single portion takes an hour to make, during which you have to be at the kitchen counter every three minutes, then that takes the fun out of it for sure. But if you can do it three times as fast, then it's a different story.
And yes, we can use any liquid, so there's plenty to tinker with!

[lisa_thecat]

Wow, you make amazing things with this kit. Mind blowing food!

[fub]

And we haven't even tried creating foams yet!